Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

matching funds for faculty development and to strengthen library collections at three open universities in South Africa

Supplement - University of the Western Cape

to support the development of an institutional history of the University

Institutional History

for institutional planning and strengthening university libraries

Institutional Planning - Library

to support an advanced studies program at the Centre for Humanities Research 


Communicating the Humanities 

Research in the Humanities

to support planning for the creation of a sustainable archival infrastructure for preservation, access, and humanities scholarship

Planning for the Archives at UWC

to support doctoral students' participation in the World Social Science Forum

Doctoral Support at the World Social Science Forum

to support the one-year renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to support the establishment of a curriculum and research project in aesthetics and politics

Aesthetics and Politics

to establish a program on Aesthetic Education and Becoming Technical of the Human

CHR - Aesthetic Education

to support a project that rethinks the ways in which the field of South African literatures is conceptualized and understood today


Rethinking South African Literature (s)

to support a program of graduate research and training at the Centre for Humanities Research

CHR - Migrating Violence - Community, Citizenship, and Belonging

to support the establishment of an enduring academic pipeline model for promoting historically underrepresented South African college students to complete graduate studies in the humanities

Academic Pipeline Program in Three South African Universities

to support a consortium of Global South universities to consider intellecutual traditions, and political and aesthetic practices in relation to “race,” sexuality, other differences, and identity across Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean

Other Universals: Theorizing from Postcolonial Locations on Politics and Aesthetics

to support a supranational forum of Global South universities, in collaboration with museums, in order to rethink museums, heritage, and memory work through scholarly research, engagements on key themes, faculty fellowships, graduate scholarships, and academic exchanges 

Remaking Societies, Remaking Persons

to support visiting fellows in the humanities and social sciences

Visiting Fellows

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support fellowships for master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral students in the humanities

Humanities Fellowships

to support the senior research scholars program

Senior Research Scholars

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Humanities

for faculty development and to strengthen the library

South African Universities

to support academic staff development in the humanities and social sciences

Academic Staff Development

to support graduate student mentorship in preparation for jobs in the academy

Graduate Student Development

to support a research project that links humanities concerns with questions of technology, legal philosophy, and jurisprudence

Understanding SA's Constitutional Revolution

to provide discretionary support for the vice-chancellor

Vice-Chancellor's Discretionary Fund

to establish a Laboratory of Kinetic Objects and Puppetry Arts and a Chair in Aesthetic Theory and Material Practice

Kinetic Objects & Puppetry Arts Lab/Chair in Aesthetic Theory & Material Practice

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

to support honors and masters fellowships in the humanities

Honors and Masters Fellowships

to support doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in the Centre for Humanities Research

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support renewed participation in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support a project that promotes creative research and pedagogies that challenge patriarchal and colonial forms of scholarship

Intersectional Critical Humanities - Gender & Sexual Justice

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Renewal

to support the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 10% Increase

to support an initiative in political philosophy and political theory related to citizenship and justice

Political Theory and Political Philosophy

to support collaborative and individual grant efforts among several South African universities to expand their inclusive professoriate initiatives

South African Universities Collaboration

to support a supra-institutional collaborative program to develop an inclusive humanities professoriate

Inclusive Professoriate

to strengthen its capacity for graduate education

to support research masters and PhD students and postdoctoral fellows

Center for Humanities Research

to support a transdisciplinary research and graduate training project on food studies

Food Politics and Culture  

to strengthen its faculty and its capacity for graduate education

Faculty/Institutional Development - II

Artists in Residence Fellowship Program

to establish a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support a program in critical agrarian studies

Research Program in Critical Agrarian Studies

to support a research and graduate training project on food contestation

Food Contestation Program - Humanities and Food System

to support the establishment of South African-based Higher Education Resource Services (HERS-South Africa) to serve a consortium of five higher education institutions in the Western Cape (University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, Stellenbosch University, Cape Technikon, and the Peninsula Technikon)

Higher Education Resource Services for Cape Higher Education Consortium

to support a collaboration with the University of the Western Cape that comprises exchanges of faculty and graduate students, workshops, and seminars that will explore the theme of aesthetic education

Aesthetic Education

to support exchanges of graduate students and faculty members in the humanities and related social sciences, in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape

Humanities Center Exchange Program

to support exchanges of graduate students and faculty members in the humanities and related social sciences  in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape

Faculty & Graduate Student Exchange Program  

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 